John XI

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noun

1. died a.d. 936, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 931–936.

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Example Sentences

As to His not knowing whether His prayer could be heard, see St. John xi.

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We know practically nothing of Sterne’s Cambridge career except the dates above mentioned, the fact of his being elected first to a sizarship and then as founder’s kin to a scholarship endowed by Archbishop Sterne, and the incident told by himself that he there contracted his lifelong friendship with a distant relative and fellow Jesus man, John Hall, or John xi Hall Stevenson, of whom more presently.

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John XI. son of Marosia, and it is said of Sergios III. born in 906, installed on 20th March, 931, died in prison, in Jan. 936 127.

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This third spouse being disposed to maltreat Alberic, another son of Marosia’s, a party devoted to young Alberic put him at the head of affairs: Hugues was driven from the city, and John XI. continued to fill in form, but without any actual power, the chair of St. Peter.

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Afterward, this Marozia, daughter of Theodora, made her own son pope, John XI.

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